Political affiliation and willingness-to-pay for publicly versus privately provided environmental goods

Bateman, Ian J. and Dupont, Diane P. (2010) Political affiliation and willingness-to-pay for publicly versus privately provided environmental goods. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (1). pp. 1-34.

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Abstract

Previous literature has found that politically conservative individuals express a lower willingness-to-pay (WTP) for environmental goods than left-wing supporters. Using data from three surveys valuing water we investigate the role of context by evaluating whether the means of provision (public or private) matters. While left-wing voters have higher WTP for publically provided public goods, right-wing voters have a higher WTP when a good is privately provided. Our findings have implications for values typically obtained for environmental public goods using survey data from constructed markets since scenarios typically describe improvements as being publically provided.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2011 14:00
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2023 10:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/20232
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